Greek Philosophers, The

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Most books about the Greek philosophers follow this format; there is a short introduction about the pre-Socratics, followed by extensive discussion of Plato and Aristotle, followed by a short epilogue about all of the Greek philosophers after Aristotle. In this book, Rex Warner, a popular British classicist and novelist of the 1950s and 60s, follows a different approach. Warner does spend a significant amount of time discussing Plato and Aristotle of course. But Warner reminds us that Christian philosophy has emphasized these two philosophers, while in fact in the ancient world Plato and Aristotle were not the dominant philosophical schools. In order to understand the mind of the ancient Greeks and Romans, you have to understand the other schools, such as those of the Pythagoreans, the Cynics, and especially the Stoics. Very few of the prominent Greek and Roman pagan thinkers were influenced by Plato or Aristotle, but rather by the other schools. Nobody can understand the thinking of the great Roman emperors without understanding the Stoics. And it is difficult to understand the rise of neo-Pagan thought without understanding the philosophy of Plotinus and his Neo-Platonists.

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